A MAN who died in a motorbike crash in East Ayrshire has been named by police.

Rory Harley Davidson, 23, was travelling with another man on the bike on Monday morning when it struck a stone dyke in Boig Road, New Cumnock, near to Nith Bridge, causing the pair to be thrown off the vehicle.

The second man was taken to Ayr Hospital, where staff described his condition as critical.